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Richard W. Rahn currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the European Center for Economic Growth, a Visiting Fellow of the Heritage Foundation, and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He writes a weekly economic column for The Washington Times which appears in many other newspapers around the world. Previously, Dr. Rahn served as Vice President and Chief Economist of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. He has written hundreds of articles for leading newspapers and has contributed to numerous books and professional journals, and is the former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Growth. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on economic issues more than seventy-five times, and is a frequent commentator on radio and TV. He holds Ph.D. in Business Economics from Columbia University.